Most commercial hive bodies (boxes) are made to accomodate 10 frames of combs. These frames are easily removable. We use 9 frames most of the time to allow a little easier acc…ess for removing the frames of combs. Each frame is one comb..
A frame of combs is simply a wooden frame with ears on the top portion that allow it to hang in the hive body like a file folder. The inside portion of the frame contains foundation or combs that the bees use for brood rearing or storage of honey.

There are different sized hives, and the size of a colony varies throughout the year with the lowest population in late winter, and the highest in early summer, but average va…lues are: .
Summer: 1 queen, around 60,000 workers and 300 drones. .
Winter: 1 queen, around 10,000 workers and no drones.

It does depend on the size of the hive, but in early summer in an average hive the colony could be as large as 60,000 workers, a few hundred drones, and one queen. With a larg…e hive it is possible for there to be more, but much more and the colony would probably be looking to split, with half of them swarming to find a new home

There are three types of bees in a honey bee colony. Firstly there is the queen who lays all the eggs to produce new bees and she is the only fertile female in the colony. The…n there are around 400 drones in the colony. Drones are male bees and their only purpose is to mate with a virgin queen when a new one is produced after swarming. Finally there are around 40,000 workers and as the name suggests, they do all the work in the colony, from looking after the larvae, keeping the hive clean, collecting pollen and nectar and making honey. Worker bees are infertile females.